First, the Dutch Safety Board looked into the circumstances of the disaster over Ukraine. And this week the Joint Investigation Team presented the first results of the criminal investigation. The JIT consists of Australian, Belgian, Malaysian, Dutch and Ukrainian officials. They claimed they had gathered irrefutable evidence Flight MH17 had been downed by a Buk missile launched on July 17, 2014 from an area controlled by militias opposed to Kiev. The missile, they said, had come from Russia.

It is noteworthy, though, that the JIT chief acknowledged all data provided by Russia had been ignored.

Meanwhile, Russia’s arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey back a year ago provided its own findings, confirmed by real life experiments. In particular, the concern’s specialists said the ill-fortunate Boeing-777 had been destroyed by a Buk missile, but the missile was launched not from the area mentioned by the Dutch Safety Board, but from the village of Zaroshchanskoye, which on the day of the disaster was in the hands of the Ukrainian military.